Scissors

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Name	scissors
Appearance	scissors
Base price	30 zm
Weight	5
Material	iron
Monster use	Will not be used by monsters.

Scissors are a type of tool that appears in NetHack brass.

Generation

Scissors are generated 25% blessed, 50% uncursed, and 25% cursed.

In addition to random generation, general shops and hardware stores can sell scissors.

Description

Applying a pair of scissors allows you to cut a cloth item up, destroying it and potentially producing a number of bandages depending on the item chosen:

Item	Amount (before adjustments)
mummy wrapping	1 bandage
kitchen apron, frilled apron	3 bandages
towel, T-shirt, Hawaiian shirt	5 bandages
nurse uniform	7 bandages
other cloth items	weight divided by 4

A Healer or any female character wearing a nurse cap or nurse uniform can reliably produce the amount of bandages shown above - other characters will produce any number of bandages between 0 and the aforementioned "cap" for that item, with a penalty to the amount of bandages made for using a cursed pair of scissors, as well as a penalty for having less than 18 dexterity. If the result would be 0 bandages or less, the cloth item is destroyed without yielding any.

The new bandages inherit their beatitude from both the scissors and the cloth item that you cut, similar to a magic marker:

Bandage beatitude

		Scissors
		Blessed	Uncursed	Cursed
Cloth item	Blessed	Blessed	Blessed	Uncursed
	Uncursed	Blessed	Uncursed	Cursed
	Cursed	Uncursed	Cursed	Cursed

Cutting existing bandages will destroy them. You cannot use scissors to cut an item you are wearing, and scissors cannot cut up any other material.

Messages

You can't cut that!

You tried to cut a non-cloth item with scissors.

You can't cut something you're wearing.

You tried to cut a worn cloth item.

You cut your <item> asunder.

You completely destroyed the item without producing any bandages.

You cut your <item> into a bandage.

You produced one bandage.

You cut your (item) into some bandages.

You produced multiple bandages.

Oops! <count of bandages> slip(s) to the floor!

You produced bandages without enough room in your inventory to carry them.

Oops! <count of bandages> slip(s) away from you!

As above, but you were underwater, on the Plane of Air, or engulfed by a monster.

Dudley's dungeon

In the 11 June and 12 June 2007 strips of Dudley's dungeon, Dudley plays rock-paper-scissors by wielding an actual pair of scissors, scaring a paper golem into fleeing.